Reverend Harold M. Kingsley, Carol Brice, Jackie Robinson, G. Raymond Booth and John Anson Ford, Los Angeles, 1943-1953

Item Overview

Title

Reverend Harold M. Kingsley, Carol Brice, Jackie Robinson, G. Raymond Booth and John Anson Ford, Los Angeles, 1943-1953

Alternative title

Somerville community activities (1)

Photographer

McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Date Created

[between 1943-1953]

Date

1943/1953

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

G. Raymond Booth, a Quaker pastor, was the Executive Secretary of the AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) Pacific Coast Branch in 1940.
Seated at a banquet table are G. Raymond Booth (2nd from left) and John Anson Ford (3rd from left), with three people standing behind them (from left): Reverend Harold M. Kingsley, Carol Brice, and Jackie Robinson.
John Anson Ford was an American journalist, advertising executive and Democratic Party politician. He was a long-serving member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball(MLB) in the modern era. [Wikipedia]
Harold M. Kingsley was a Congregational minister and political activist. Born in Mobile, Alabama, he was the son of a wealthy white man and a poor black woman. He graduated from Talladega College (1908), and Yale Divinity School (1911). He was the pastor of Bethel Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Union Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1911 to 1913), then with the American Missionary Association (AMA) (1913-1920). After serving as a pastor in Cleveland, Kingsley went to Good Shepherd Church in Chicago (1927-1943) where he led the church in providing social welfare services and encouraging community development. Kingsley then moved to Little Tokyo in Los Angeles where he served as director of Pilgrim House (1943-1951). He arrived when nearly all of the Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals were in internment camps, and was a vocal opponent of their incarceration and made strides to reintegrate the group into the community upon their return. Kingsley continued to be active in California race relations for the remainder of his life and actively promoted harmonious race relations between blacks, whites, Chicano, and Japanese.

Caption

Photographer's stamp on back of photo: McLain's Photo Service / 24 hour service / 1168 East 47th Place / AD 1-9732 Los Angeles 11, Calif. Written on back of photo: Ellen Hilyer 9606 14th St. N.E. Wash D.C. / Jennie J. Wilder 1712 15th St., N.W. Wash. 9 DC / Lucille B. Wilkins 6717 Evans Ave. Chicago 37. Ill. / Barsha Stafford 4059a W. Bille Pl. St. Louis 8 Mo.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Ford, John Anson,
Kingsley, Harold M., 1887-1970
Brice, Carol, 1918-1985
Booth, G. Raymond (George Raymond), 1895-1953

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American civil rights workers
African American baseball players
African American social workers
Opera singers
African American politicians